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HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — Bookstore chain Books-A-Million Inc. is
changing its previously announced plans for a former Borders
location in Mays Landing, opting to sell new books instead of used
ones there.

The Alabama-based retailer considered the Wrangleboro Road store
for a 2nd & Charles, its brand that sells and buys used books
and a relatively new company venture with a handful of locations
nationwide.

However, the company changed its mind after feedback and
comments during the past several weeks from South Jersey residents
requesting a traditional megastore, Books-A-Million spokeswoman
Jane Hoerner said.

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The 20,000-square-foot location will be a superstore
Books-A-Million, selling new books and offering coffee at its Joe
Muggs café, said Hoerner, who said the company intends to open well
before Christmas.

“One of the things we heard a lot from people in the Mays
Landing community is how much they were yearning for a traditional,
premier bookstore. After hearing everything in the community, we
decided to listen,” she said.

Books-A-Million operates more than 230 stores across the country
and plans to increase that number to more than 250 following a wave
of new openings, including a smaller 2,700-square-foot location at
the Cumberland Mall in Vineland that opened last week. A ribbon
cutting at the mall store will be held midafternoon Friday.

The chain has also been scooping up retail space previously
occupied by Borders, its once-larger rival that liquidated all its
stores in bankruptcy this year.

This left vacancies at commercial properties throughout the
country, including Mays Landing.

Books-A-Million stores opened in more than 30 former Borders
locations in November, including in South Dakota, Maine and
Wisconsin, Hoerner said.

Hoerner said she couldn’t put a finger on how many comments the
company received since announcing the used bookstore concept in
Atlantic County in November.

She said comments were received through e-mails, customer
service phone numbers and employees on the ground.

This will be Books-A-Million’s fourth location in New Jersey and
its first superstore in the state. Smaller locations are in Cherry
Hill, Camden County, and Paramus, Bergen County.

In Mays Landing, the company will hire about 40 employees, she
said.

The local Borders, which had opened in 1997, had its last day on
Sept. 15.

Hoerner said the new Books-A-Million will look at least somewhat
familiar to patrons of the former Borders in Mays Landing.

“Customers will see a little of a resemblance, and we want them
to have that sense of similarity,” she said. “We still have work to
do to get our inventory in there. One of the bigger changes is
putting in a Joe Muggs cafe.”

Books-A-Million

Location: 2200 Wrangleboro Road, Mays Landing

Owner: One of more than 230 stores of Books-A-Million Inc., of
Birmingham, Ala.

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